I. Mitelman ( Israel Mitelman , Yiddish י . מיטלמאַן - I. Mitlman ; 1898 , Satanov , Proskurovsky Uyezd , Podolsk Province - 1951 ) - Soviet Jewish bibliographer, specialist in the creative heritage of Sholom Aleichem .
Biography
I. Mitelman was born in Satanov, where he studied in a cheder , was engaged in self-education and passed external exams for a gymnasium course. After the February Revolution of 1917 he moved to Kiev , where in 1930 he graduated from the chemistry department of the Kiev Institute of Public Education.
Since the late 1920s, he has been publishing bibliographic works in leading Jewish periodicals in the country, including the specialized Yiddish journals “Critic” ( criticism ) and “Reuter Librarian” ( red librarian ). Since 1930 - an employee of the Institute of Jewish Proletarian Culture at the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (VUAN) , head of the institute's bibliographic center. Since 1930, it has been published in the bibliographic collections of the Institute (see the works “On the Jewish Card Repertoire in the Ukrainian Book Chamber”, “Testimonium paupertatis - Certificate of Poverty”, “Jewish Section of the National Library of Ukraine”, “Library Commission and the Central Library Bureau of the Institute of Jewish Studies” proletarian culture ”and others).
For many years, I. Mitelman studied the creative heritage of Sholom Aleichem , publishing a number of materials on this topic in collaboration with Khatskel Nadel ( 1905 - 1968 ). [1] In 1939, Mitelman and Nadel published a commented literary collection, “Fargesene Bletleh” ( forgotten leaflets ), entirely composed of the works of Sholom Aleichem that they found that were not included in published works. Under their editing, a collection of articles and materials “Sholom Aleichem” (1940) was also published, where the joint work “Sholom Aleichem as an editor-publisher” was published. In the late 1930s he was engaged in compiling the Complete Works of Sholom Aleichem. The most significant and last joint work of Mitelman and Nadel was the last, 15th volume of the collected works of Sholom-Aleichem (Der Emes Publishing House, Moscow , 1941), for the first time including the writer's epistolary heritage ( 1883 - 1916 ) that they collected. [2] The further fate of I. Mitelman is unknown.
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Literature
- Chaim Bader . Studies of Jewish writers. - K .: Duh i Litera, 2003 .-- S. 204.